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TU volunteers, staffers tout Delaware efforts on Capitol Hill
New Jersey TU staffer Cole Baldino and Musconetcong Watershed Association volunteer Bill Leavens. By David Kinney Last week, Trout Unlimited restoration staff and volunteers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York visited their congressional offices in Washington D.C. to showcase efforts to restore wild trout habitat in the Delaware River Basin. In part, it was…
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Reps. DeFazio and Huffman, champions for SW Oregon rivers
U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (Oregon) and Jared Huffman (California) today sent a letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources urging the committee to take immediate action to schedule a hearing for H.R. 310, The Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act. This bill would permanently protect salmon and steelhead strongholds on the southern Oregon…
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Video spotlight: Spawning rainbows
We see a lot of video footage of migrating salmon spawning in Alaska and in other places around the world, but we often forget that our inland trout and char run upstream—just like salmon—to spawn, too. The video below shows spawning rainbow trout spawning this spring in a small tributary stream on the Helena-Lewis and…
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Voices from the River: Angler scientist Nick Milkovich
Nick Milkovich looks through a transparency tube to help assess water quality. (Photo: Josh Martz) By Jake Lemon Citizen Science Day 2018 celebrates the work of the amazing volunteers who power the field. Nick Milkovich is a citizen scientist who recently participated in a Water Quality Snapshot Day event in the Allegheny National Forest. This…
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Voices from the River: STREAM Girls connect with nature
Participants at a recent STREAM Girls event held in South Carolina get their feet wet. Trout Unlimited photo. By Franklin Tate Composer Aaron Copland was so inspired by Appalachian spring he wrote a symphony about it. Countless other artists and musicians have also found their muses once the days lengthen and the very seams of…
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Voices from the River: Thank Mom for outdoor inspiration
By Shauna Stephenson Let’s be honest for a sec: Raising outdoor kids is hard work. It’s exhausting and dirty, sometimes disgusting. It is not always perfect. It is not always successful. It does not look like an REI ad where everyone is always clean and smiling. True, we need those moms more than ever these…
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Video spotlight: Big Pike on a Fly
The Canada-heavy series The New Fly Fisher (the show will occasionally come south of the border to highlight American fisheries, too) is one of my favorite fly-fishing shows to enjoy, largely because of episodes like the one below. I first ventured north to chase pike on the fly a little over a decade ago, and…